(September 16, 2004) The United States Congress is currently considering the Jubilee Act, legislation that promotes one-time debt cancellation for poor developing countries.
Debt relief: Obasanjo berates U.S. on Nigeria
(September 16, 2004) President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday chided on the United States government over what he described as the country’s discriminatory policy on granting debt relief to debtor countries which favour even richer countries.
Acres has not paid a cent of its fine for corruption
(September 12, 2004) Canadian company Acres International has failed to pay a single cent of the R15 million it was fined a year ago by a Lesotho court for corruption.
Equatorial Guinea’s oil boom leaves poor behind
(September 8, 2004) The subject of corruption is taboo in Equatorial Guinea’s tightly-controlled media, but some of the government’s publicised spending choices are enough to set tongues wagging.
Outside expert did business with dictator
(September 7, 2004) Senate investigation reveals Riggs Bank independent consultant on Equatorial Guinea was a business partner of the country’s dictator, Teodoro Obiang Nguema, the bank’s biggest depositor.
Grease is the word for oil in Equatorial Guinea
(September 7, 2004) A U.S. Senate report paints "a damning portrait of financial impropriety and sleaze" in Equatorial Guinea says campaign group Global Witness.
Getting priorities right is a must
(September 3, 2004) What the Lesotho case and the Lugar corruption hearings demonstrate is that institutions must reflect the interests of the countries concerned instead of the domestic politics of the rich and the powerful.
Help me, wonga
(September 3, 2004) Rod Liddle says that Mark Thatcher’s latest difficulties reveal an extraordinary, even hilarious, degree of corruption and humbug in the West.
In Kenya, corruption fight sign of times
(August 27, 2004) Visitors arriving at Nairobi’s international airport are greeted with this sign at passport control: "No bribes should be given or accepted whether demanded or not.
Shady Acres
(August 16, 2004) Richard Bentley, the 18th-century English scholar, once observed that "no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself." It is so, too, with corporations. A striking demonstration of this is Acres International.
The Lesotho Highlands Water Project: bribery on a massive scale
(August 8, 2004) Many of the legal aspects of corruption have now been thoroughly and recently tested in the Lesotho courts, challenging the ways in which corruption is detected and punished in different parts of the world.
The boom that only oils the wheels of corruption
(August 5, 2004) The new wealth from oil development in sub-Saharan Africa has been used almost exclusively for the enrichment of political leaders, and as a consequence most of the population remains poor and unprotected.
Fight against corruption is a thankless battle – Kamazima
(August 4, 2004) The fight against corruption is a thankless battle, observed Southern Africa Forum Against Corruption (SAFAC) out-going chairman Major General Anatory Kamazima yesterday.
Fight against corruption a thankless battle, Kamazima
(August 4, 2004) The fight against corruption is a thankless job, said Major General Anatory Kamazima, the outgoing chairman of the Southern Africa Forum Against Corruption (SAFAC). Major General Kamazima said the irony of fighting corruption was that very few in the upper echelon of society supported the battle. Without strong political will, he said, anti-corruption agencies would not succeed alone.
Lesotho remains firm against corruption despite lack of funding help from EU or World Bank
(August 2, 2004) Various promises of assistance made but little follow-through, especially from countries whose companies were involved in the criminal proceedings.
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